[debbugs-tracker] bug#12289: closed (24.1; holidays.el does not account for Orthodox Christians using the Revised Julian calendar)

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Christians using the Revised Julian calendar
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #12289,
regarding 24.1; holidays.el does not account for Orthodox Christians using the 
Revised Julian calendar
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> 24.1; holidays.el does not account for Orthodox Christians using the	Revised Julian calendar
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> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:13:01 -0500
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> holidays.el has
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>             (holiday-julian 12 25 "Eastern Orthodox Christmas")
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> In fact, my understanding is that this is only true for the Orthodox
> Churches still using the Julian Calendar exclusively, most notably the
> Russian Orthodox Church[1].  Several other Churches[2] use the Revised
> Julian calendar, which is indistinguishable from the Gregorian until the
> year 2800, for the fixed feasts of the ecclesiastical year.
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> However, even those on the Revised Julian still uses the (original)
> Julian calendar for the calculation of Easter and the moveable feasts so
> holiday-greek-orthodox-easter would still apply.
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> My source for this is http://orthodoxwiki.org/Revised_Julian_Calendar
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> [1] In addition to the Churches of Jerusalem, Serbia, Ukraine, and Georgia
> [2] Constantinople, Antioch, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria,
> and the Orthodox Church in America
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> Re: bug#12289: 24.1;	holidays.el does not account for Orthodox Christians using the	Revised Julian calendar
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> Date: 
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> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:19:51 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 24.3
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> I went with "Christmas (Julian calendar)", since the Julian calendar is
> referenced in the Emacs manual, etc.
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